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Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by Gerardo1 »

noahbrier wrote: post #13
jmull wrote: post #10

> Anyone who can't find use cases for LLMs isn't trying hard enough That's an interesting viewpoint from an AI marketing company. I think the essential job of marketing is to help people make the connection between their problems and your solutions. Putting all on them in a kind of blamey way doesn't seem like a great approach to me.

That's fair. But it's what I believe. I spend a lot of time inside giant companies and there are too many people waiting for stone tablets to come down the mountain with their use cases instead of just playing with this stuff.

> That's fair. But it's what I believe.

That response suggests you aren't interested in discussion or conversation at all.

It suggests that your purpose here is to advertise.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by scottyah »

gchamonlive wrote: post #11
tsimionescu wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good luck understanding the biases in a petabyte of text and images and video, or whatever the training set is.

Do you disagree it's important to have access to the data, ease of assessment notwithstanding?

It is an interesting question. Of course everyone should have equal access to the data in theory, but I also believe nobody should be forced to offer it for free to others and I don't think I want to spend tax money having the government host and distribute that data.

I'm not sure how everyone can have access to the data without necessitating another taking on the burden of providing it.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by articulatepang »

noahbrier wrote: post #18
skydhash wrote: post #17

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I read the whole thing and could still not figure out what they’re trying to solve. Which I’m pretty sure goes against the Unix philosophy. The one thing should be clearly defined to be able to declare that you solve it well.

What the company is trying to solve or what I'm solving with Claude Code?

What you’re solving with Claude Code. All I could gather was … something with your notes. Would you mind clearly stating 2-5 specific problems that you use Claude Code to solve with your notes?

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by noahbrier »

Gerardo1 wrote: post #21
noahbrier wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's fair. But it's what I believe. I spend a lot of time inside giant companies and there are too many people waiting for stone tablets to come down the mountain with their use cases instead of just playing with this stuff.

> That's fair. But it's what I believe. That response suggests you aren't interested in discussion or conversation at all. It suggests that your purpose here is to advertise.

No, that’s not what it means. You can read what I’ve written about this for the last three years and I’ve been very consistent. In the enterprise too many people are waiting to be told things and whether it’s good for my business or not I’d rather be honest about how I feel (you need to just use this stuff).

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by noahbrier »

articulatepang wrote: post #23
noahbrier wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What the company is trying to solve or what I'm solving with Claude Code?

What you’re solving with Claude Code. All I could gather was … something with your notes. Would you mind clearly stating 2-5 specific problems that you use Claude Code to solve with your notes?

I was on a podcast last week where I went into a ton of detail: https://every.to/podcast/how-to-use-claude-code-as-a-thinkin...

Basically I have it sitting over the top of my notes and assisting with writing, editing, researching, etc.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by noahbrier »

skydhash wrote: post #19
noahbrier wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What the company is trying to solve or what I'm solving with Claude Code?

I read the title, I read the article and there’s nothing in the article that supports the claim made in the title. Also about a tool being overly conplex. Something like find, imagemagick, ffmpeg,… are not complex in themselves. They’re solving a domain that itself is complex. But the tools are quite good the evidence is their stability where they’ve barely changed across decades.

This is my point. Those tools are great specifically because of the simplicity of how they expose their functionality.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by boredumb »

I've done exactly this with MCP { "name": "unshare_exec", "description": "Run a binary in isolated Linux namespaces using unshare", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "binary": {"type": "string"}, "args": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}} }, "required": ["binary"], "additionalProperties": false } }

It started as unshare and ended up being a bit of a yakshaving endeavor to make things work but i was able to get some surprisingly good results using gemma3 locally and giving it access to run arbitrary debian based utilities.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by Gerardo1 »

noahbrier wrote: post #24
Gerardo1 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's fair. But it's what I believe. That response suggests you aren't interested in discussion or conversation at all. It suggests that your purpose here is to advertise.

No, that’s not what it means. You can read what I’ve written about this for the last three years and I’ve been very consistent. In the enterprise too many people are waiting to be told things and whether it’s good for my business or not I’d rather be honest about how I feel (you need to just use this stuff).

>No, that’s not what it means.

That's fair but it's what I believe.

...see?

Being consistent with stating your beliefs isn't the same as engaging with and about those beliefs.

Advertising isn't conversation. Evangelism isn't discussion.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by mbmdhtbmit »

noahbrier wrote: post #24
Gerardo1 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's fair. But it's what I believe. That response suggests you aren't interested in discussion or conversation at all. It suggests that your purpose here is to advertise.

No, that’s not what it means. You can read what I’ve written about this for the last three years and I’ve been very consistent. In the enterprise too many people are waiting to be told things and whether it’s good for my business or not I’d rather be honest about how I feel (you need to just use this stuff).

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Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by articulatepang »

noahbrier wrote: post #25
articulatepang wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you’re solving with Claude Code. All I could gather was … something with your notes. Would you mind clearly stating 2-5 specific problems that you use Claude Code to solve with your notes?

I was on a podcast last week where I went into a ton of detail: https://every.to/podcast/how-to-use-claude-code-as-a-thinkin... Basically I have it sitting over the top of my notes and assisting with writing, editing, researching, etc.

Thanks, I’ll take a look.

I love obsidian for the same basic reason you do: it’s just a bunch of text files, so I can use terminal tools and write programs to do stuff with them.

So far I mostly use LLMs to write the tools themselves, but not actually edit the notes. Maybe I can steal some of your ideas!

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